mercurial/help/extensions.txt
author Patrick Mezard <pmezard@gmail.com>
Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:17:25 +0200
changeset 14566 d0c2cc11e611
parent 12083 ebfc46929f3e
child 19296 da16d21cf4ed
permissions -rw-r--r--
patch: generalize the use of patchmeta in applydiff() - Add patchmeta.copy() and emit copies from iterhunks. Modifying patchmeta instances in applydiff() makes things simpler. - Rename selectfile() into makepatchmeta(). It is responsible for creating patchmeta for regular patches. - Pass patchmeta objects to patchfile() directly patchmeta instances were associated with git patches, for regular patches we had to pass additional variables to tell the patch intent to patchfile(). Instead, we generate patchmeta for regular patches and pass them. This will also help with patch filtering by matcher objects.

Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to
existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or
implement hooks.

Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons:
they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced
usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such
as letting you destroy or modify history); they might not be ready
for prime time; or they may alter some usual behaviors of stock
Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as
needed.

To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the
Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file,
like this::

  [extensions]
  foo =

You may also specify the full path to an extension::

  [extensions]
  myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py

To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of
broader scope, prepend its path with !::

  [extensions]
  # disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
  bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
  # ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
  baz = !